The Star Trek Thread, V5.0

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fonzob1 said:
Seeing characters from TNG and DS9 in a new series is exactly that kind of show I wanted. I dig that idea.
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Not me. I'm sick of how this series always leans on old characters.

Those characters had their time. Their arcs have finished, their stories have been told.

New shows should be about new characters.
 
sverre054 said:
Star Trek'The motion picture, opened 38 years ago, today.

TMP was one of the most extensive movies ever made at the time, and was truly visually stunning. It was helmed by legendary Oscar winner Robert Wise

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I loved this movie. Second best Star Trek movie. I saw it in the Imperial theater here in Montreal, it was a hell of an experience. Back in '79, I was eleven.
 
fonzob1 said:
Nothing about them feels like Klingons. Klingons were never expressionless in prior shows. These Klingons are completely expressionless due to all the facial prosthetics. They are basically an entirely new species. It's the single biggest reason I can't stand the show.
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There are a lot of things I like about this show, but the Klingons aren't one of them. I think they look pretty ridiculous. Space nosferatu.

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The Discovery writing team has reassembled in LA to begin writing season 2.
 
Episode titles for the 2nd half of season 1

 
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I'm 3 eps in.

The first thing I noticed is that it's visually excellent. I've been revisiting some old episodes of TNG and it's fucking crazy how far TV has come since then. TNG looks like a TV show; Discovery basically looks like a movie for the small screen.

With that said, on a narrative level, I'm not sure I'm sold yet. It seems to be more of a straight-forward sci-fi adventure story, in the vein of the new films, than it is the thoughtful, intellectual sci-fi of the TNG era. I feel as if Star Trek may be losing part of what has always set it aside from other sci-fi franchises.

I'll keep going with it and see how I feel after a few more eps.
 
shadow_priest_x said:
I'm 3 eps in.

The first thing I noticed is that it's visually excellent. I've been revisiting some old episodes of TNG and it's fucking crazy how far TV has come since then. TNG looks like a TV show; Discovery basically looks like a movie for the small screen.

With that said, on a narrative level, I'm not sure I'm sold yet. It seems to be more of a straight-forward sci-fi adventure story, in the vein of the new films, than it is the thoughtful, intellectual sci-fi of the TNG era. I feel as if Star Trek may be losing part of what has always set it aside from other sci-fi franchises.

I'll keep going with it and see how I feel after a few more eps.
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Would say I'm shocked but I expect something like this of you

Skip all the good stuff to watch the awful stuff

Bravo
 
shadow_priest_x said:
I'm 3 eps in.

The first thing I noticed is that it's visually excellent. I've been revisiting some old episodes of TNG and it's fucking crazy how far TV has come since then. TNG looks like a TV show; Discovery basically looks like a movie for the small screen.

With that said, on a narrative level, I'm not sure I'm sold yet. It seems to be more of a straight-forward sci-fi adventure story, in the vein of the new films, than it is the thoughtful, intellectual sci-fi of the TNG era. I feel as if Star Trek may be losing part of what has always set it aside from other sci-fi franchises.

I'll keep going with it and see how I feel after a few more eps.
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Glad your giving it a chance. The show gets better as the season progresses. Too many people who never actually watched a few episodes, condemned the show and claimed it would fail, most likely because they don't want to pay for all access or Netflix. Despite that the ratings have been great, and has already been renewed.

Many people, including myself didn't like Enterprise when it first came out, because it was different then the trek we were used too. Now its become a fan favorite after re-discovering it on streaming sites, and wonder why it only went four seasons.

Same thing has happened with the Last Jedi, some people have issues with certain parts of it, so it become THE WORST FILM EVER MADE!!!!, yet they will see it 5 times, and keep talking about it. That's the downside of fandom...
 
Made it through five episodes.

It's interesting, but I'm finding all the stuff about spores someone helping with transport to be strange and hard to understand, and now there's some creature they can someone hook up to a machine that helps them jump?

I dunno. All that is kind of weird and I'm just not sure about it.

Also, it's an interesting choice to subtitle all the Klingon dialogue. I don't mind it, but it's unusual for a TV show to go that route, instead of having them speak English but where we understand that in reality they're speaking Klingon. Sometimes the subtitles go by quite quickly and I'm not able to take in everything that's being said.
 
sverre054 said:
Most of the DS9 cast and crew got back together for a special photo shoot for variety. It will be for a article talking about DS9 25th anniversary

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Aron Eisenberg (Nog)

Ira Steven Behr (Executive Producer)

Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat)

Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisco)

Michael Dorn (Worf)

Terry Farrell (Jadzia Dax)

Nana Visitor (Major Kira)

Armin Shimerman (Quark)

Nicole De Boer (Ezri Dax)

Jeffrey Combs (Weyoun, Brunt)

Rick Berman (Executive Producer)

Rene Auberjonois (Odo)

Penny Johnson Jerald (Kasidy Yates)

Chase Masterson (Leeta)

Avery Brooks, Colm Meany, and Alexander Siddig are missing from the shoot.
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Damn the girl on the far right is THIC !
 
Happy Bday to DS9

Deep Space 9 turns 25 today, first airing 1-3-1993

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Here is a early promo, when they first announced the new series



Most of the cast reunited recently, to film scenes for the upcoming DS9 doc, "What we left behind", and did a full photo shoot for a upcoming feature for Variety

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Season one cast photo

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sverre054 said:
Happy Bday to DS9

Deep Space 9 turns 25 today, first airing 1-3-1993

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Here is a early promo, when they first announced the new series



Most of the cast reunited recently, to film scenes for the upcoming DS9 doc, "What we left behind", and did a full photo shoot for a upcoming feature for Variety

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Season one cast photo

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Wow. Really miss this show. I always wanted them to do a follow-up miniseries since they were never able to do anything on the big screen. Now they are too old. Depressing to think it has been 25 years.
 
TAR TREK: DISCOVERY Producers Look Ahead to “Chapter 2” and Beyond; Critics Tease Reactions to Show’s Return

  • January 7, 2018
    , after a long wait, Star Trek: Discoveryfinally returns to round out its first season as “Chapter Two” of the series arrives with “Despite Yourself” tonight, the first of six episodes left to air this year.

    Ahead of the show’s return, series producers Aaron Harberts and Gretchen Bergtook part in a multi-series showrunner panel at the annual Television Critics’ Association winter press tour, where they touched on the series to date — and offered some teasing hints towards what’s to come in Discovery for 2018.

    * * * SPOILER ALERT! * * *
    After the Discovery landed in unfamiliar terrain during the final moments of “Into the Forest I Go” — thanks to Lorca adding his own special instructions to the spore drive system — fans have wondered what may play out for the Starfleet crew lost in space.

    Berg and Harberts commented on where the series moves for “Chapter Two,” implying it will be a wild ride, as reported by the AV Club:

    Berg advised fans to “buckle up,” because the show is “introducing a huge new development.” “It’ll be fun for Trek fans,” Harberts chimed in, teasing a “nice nod to stuff from [The Original Series]. This back half—what happens tomorrow night firmly anchors the back half to the season.

    It’s definitely again a war story, as far as how it’ll play out, but our characters find themselves in a place where their identities are challenged. It’s an emotionally wrought back half. Very intense. The cast has done some amazing work.”

    The pair also addressed fans’ hopes for a return of Captain Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) who was killed in the series’ premiere, following up on comments made at the show’s New York Comic Con panel:

    Berg calls the relationship between Georgiou and Burnham “such a core relationship for the entire spine. Our goal was always to keep Captain Georgiou alive on the show. The joy is in the journey. I’d say, keep watching, because Georgiou is such a huge part of the heart who was Michael Burnham. If that’s something you’re invested in, keep watching because I think you hopefully will enjoy what we’re going to do.”

    “Once you watch episode 10, you’ll see the context that we’re playing in,” Harberts adds. “Another theme for the back half is second chances.”


    Captain Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) in her ready room aboard the Shenzhou. (CBS)
    Aaron Harberts on moving the world of Star Trek: Discovery to the Federation fans are familiar with:

    “The other thing that’s a huge theme for us is taking the Federation from the darkness into the light. Everybody wants this optimistic version of Star Trek right out of the gate.

    And I feel that our show has a lot of hope in it from episode to episode, depending on storyline we’re tracking… by season’s end, people will see the Federation they’ve come to know and love from TOS on.”

    Looking ahead to the green-lit second season, currently in the (very) early days of development, Harberts shared a little of the vision for where Discovery may head after this year’s story is concluded — and how the chaos surrounding the first year’s development has been done away with for next season:

    Harberts pushes the more traditional Trek angle as something the duo “wants to explore more” in the new season, which they just started working last month. He acknowledges the “well-documented” embattled season-one production, but enthuses that “This year, we have a fantastic creative team in place, everybody knows each other.”

    “But we also have time this year—we have time to do things like more away missions, newer planets. These are stories that might fall a little bit more into a framework of allegory that people love to get from Trek. But we will always continue to have that overarching serialized thread.”

    And as for the themes or potential storylines, Harberts teased an exploration of faith and “science versus faith.”


    Tyler, Tilly, Burnham, Saru, and Lorca in Engineering. (CBS)
    A few critics who have already seen tonight’s episode seem to have high hopes for the quality of “Despite Yourself,” which kicks off what one calls a “reboot” of the series.

    Ryan Britt at Inverse.com had this to say:

    If you’re someone who didn’t watch the debut of “Star Trek: Discovery” last year, there’s good news. If you jump right in with the new mid-season debut this Sunday, you’ll be mostly fine. Because the previous episode pretty much left one big plot arc behind, the rest of the episodes seemed poised to take the show in a new direction.

    Superficially, some things do look different [compared to previous Trek shows], but this stuff doesn’t matter as much hardcore fans might tell you. And in the new episode, it probably matters even less. Yes, for those who have followed the entire franchise, you’re going to be rewarded big time in this episode. There are several references to HUGE events from the original series and beyond in this one.

    TV Guide’s Alex Zalben and Engage: The Official Star Trek Podcast host Jordan Hoffman shared their thoughts on Twitter:
    In an fairly spoiler-y interview with “Despite Yourself” director Jonathan Frakes, RottenTomatoes.com’s Debbie Day reacted to one (unnamed) characters’ apparent demise:

    Rotten Tomatoes: Let’s talk about your episode of Discovery… I have seen it, and it was very good. I gasped when
    . I was sitting alone watching it, and I just went, “Aaaah!” I wondered if my neighbor heard me, because it scared the hell out of me.

    Frakes: It was a great death. But is it a death?

    RT: I think any time the words “temporal anomaly” come into a Star Trek episode, all bets are off.

    Frakes: It’s a quantum anomaly.

    RT: Correction: quantum anomaly. I think there’s potential for a lot of things to happen.

    Frakes: There are equally dramatic moments in this episode.

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    Star Trek: Discovery returns with “Despite Yourself” tonight on CBS All Access and Space, and returns to Netflix globally tomorrow night.
 
Discovery returned tonight, and we got another great episode. hard to talk about with spoiling, so I will wait to comment until a few days have passed.
 
Struggled to follow as my kid was making lots of noise.. did they get into an alternate universe somehow?
 
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